This week returning guest Laura Crawford explores the life and past life claims of Dorothy Eady, an English woman born in the early 20th century who claimed she was a reincarnated priestess of Ancient Egypt! Her return to Egypt and adherence to ancient religion and devotion to her claimed homeland are pitted against an early childhood injury as we seek to explore her mysterious life…
We're off this week, but have a Patron's Choice episode for you from April. We talked Arizona, Kellogg, Xmen 97, Vikings! and more.
This week Matt concludes the saga of the sensational promoter Bill Veeck!Amid the myriad squabbles with the MLB and ownership of several teams, we discover the touching charitable nature of the man, his responsibility for several long-lasting baseball traditions and one famous episode of a dwarf at-bat!
This week Matt treats the lads to the first half of the saga of the baseball innovator, promoter and owner who consulted fans, created bizarre promotional techniques and pioneered integration in the era of the Second World War!
This week Aaron recaps the distinct life of the ghoulish actor,television personality and renaissance man Vincent Price! The enduring legacy of his public persona and less known work as a philanthropist, writer and art connoisseur are intertwined in a compelling, informative and touching profile.
This week Johnboy brings the story of the German family that killed traveler folk in Kansas while preaching spiritualism and free love post-civil war! Plus the saga of native murderer Queho and the sadist vengeance of Jack Slade!
This week Matt dives into the upstart basketball league that challenged the NBA to the point that it could no longer be ignored! The American Basketball Association brought fistfights, rule changes with long lasting consequences, pageantry and an entrepreneurial daring that brought us none other than Doctor J!
This week the boys conclude the saga of Phineas Taylor Barnum and reflect on his enduring legacy after first covering Jumbo The Elephant, a partnership and rivalry with Bailey, a public feud with ASPCA, a hasty marriage and Barnum’s final Egress!
This week Johnboy continues Barnum’s saga with his financial ruin, rescue from friends and new featured exhibits like Zip The Pinhead and Commodore Nutt, a love triangle of dwarf performers, ruinous fires and political forays in the era of Lincoln!
This week The Covid Kid aka Johnboy has the bug again so we will be back next week for Barnum Part 2! In the meantime, here is a classic Patreon episode from April where we get into, amongst much else, Caleb Landry Jones, cocaine beaches, and artificial intelligence!
This week Johnboy explores the origins of the pivotal showman, Phineas Taylor Barnum and his initial series of traveling shows that brought him instant worldwide repute with Joice Heth, Tom Thumb and Jenny Lind; a slave woman reported as 161 years old, a dwarf with talent and charisma and an angelic voice who showed Barnum’s extent to manipulate the media narrative!
This week the boys venture again into media mayhem with wild punk rock binges in mania, Ice T let loose on blaxploitation and Luchador wrestling and a slew of PSA ads that beg belief!
This week Johnboy hits the lads with two tales of weirdos! The first is a swamp bandit whose gang ruthlessly attacked police, robbed banks and controlled the illegal alcohol economy in South Florida! The second is a magician that worked in yellow face round the clock before having a very dangerous trick go exceedingly wrong!
This week Johnboy brings the tale of Nicolae Ceausescu, the conniving and cruel dictator of Romania who forced excessive childbirth on the population, razed homes to construct North Korean style palaces and cities, achieved status internationally as a rogue of the eastern bloc and finally was brutally executed along his evil bride on Christmas Day!
This week Johnboy treats the lads to the sordid class war saga of the Johnson County War, where cattle barons openly started a campaign of assassination against smaller cattle farmers before president Benjamin Harrison and local entrepreneurs intervened on either side of the conflict!
This week Matt regales the boys with the legacy of heiress Marchesa Casati, whose style, charisma, wealth and pomp made artists and high society fear and fawn over her exploits with sex, drugs, the occult and exotic animals!
This week the boys revisit the playboy lifestyle of the mid-twentieth century in Europe with the tales of three different playboys who entered the spheres of wealth and high society by virtue of just being hot, fun, connected bachelors!
This week Aaron brings us the story of chemistry prodigy - turned - nuclear threat, David Hahn - the child of divorce who applied DIY ethos to nuclear energy experiments before his creations became too unwieldy for US government agencies and still earned him an Eagle Scout badge!
This week Johnboy brings the tale of the young Australian boy who was trapped in the hostile wilderness of the Northern Territories for two months and became a national hero whose exploits became the basis for the film Crocodile Dundee, before his legal troubles and drug abuse led him to a bloody showdown with the law!
This week Matt profiles a time and place! The Mississippi River in the early 1800s takes in crime, geological aberrations, natural disasters and local politics in fascinating ways and identifies river folk as their own unique breed!
This week Johnboy shares the tale of “Rubi,” the Latin lover, sportsman, diplomat, despot affiliate and international man of mystery who courted the wealthiest and most beautiful women of the middle of the 20th century due to his charismatic magnetism, gentlemanly disposition and big ol’ hawg!
This week Matt shares the story of three Polish American boys- Butch, Pops and Peanuts -who grew up poor in Chicago, stealing food to survive and later went on to be responsible for some of the largest robberies in American history with endless arrests, schemes, bribes, chases, prison terms, bullet wounds, and heists in between!
This week Johnboy shares the story of the chain-smoking combative talk show host that courted controversy and violence in the brief time his show soared in popularity before burning out abruptly!
We're off this week, but here's a little extra episode from our patreon. We talk wild nature, porn blocking, bee facts, SBF, and more. Only $5 per month. Find us at https://www.patreon.com/profilesineccentricity
This week Aaron treats the lads to the far out ideas of John Kellogg, from his progressive ideas about diet, cleanliness and exercise to his problematic notions about sex, genetics and masturbation prevention through genital mutilation!
This week Johnboy assembles a team of vengeance-driven eccentric characters from the recent past, including a 60s femme fatale film star, an abused-child-turned-abuser-hunter and a man with a chip on his shoulder, meth in his system, and the know-how to wage a one man war on the town that let him down!
This week Matt tells the lads about the delusional, lazy, universally-loathed narcissist who failed his way through several industries before landing in Republican politics - failing at that as well - and trying to finally attain success as the assassin of President Garfield!
This week Johnboy shares the terrifying story of a woman whose disregard of the poor and greed led her to build a criminal empire in the world of adoption, leading to abuse, death and displacement for thousands of families - including a few notable famed individuals!
In the finale of Matt’s Crispo saga, we see drug paranoia mixed with the heights of access, sycophantic sadists and power play into cruel sexual fantasies that lead to a dark crime that bears little justice and darker implications for society as a whole. Plus Joe Kaye!
